Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Exotic feline breeding compound and conservation center.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.